Does this Footprint Prove Humans Originated in Europe?

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I suppose I don't have much to say in the description. The distant past is a confusing place with far more fog than visibility. But it's fun to think about, and even more fun to watch it change.
So what do you think - did Crete have apes?
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@RareEarthSeries 3 месяца назад

When I say hominid are the great apes whereas you're a hominin i should have said humans are hominids but not all great apes are hominins But I didnt say that did I? No. But here we are asking for support regardless: www.patreon.com/rareearth ko-fi.com/rareearth

@jamesglenn4151 3 месяца назад

hahaha glad you beat me to it! keep it frosty mate loved your content for years!

@RareEarthSeries 3 месяца назад

@@xp8969 the audio is just directly cut from me talking into the mic - I don't hear any major issues in the edit, certainly not ones that leave the video unwatchable

@disky01 3 месяца назад

@RareEarthSeries Bro, my guy, my dude. You're fine.

@5t4n5 3 месяца назад

@@xp8969 You need some decent speakers for your computer, and a decent computer, because the sound was perfectly ok to listen to, i heard every word perfectly ok.

@DIREWOLFx75 3 месяца назад

"other creatures got here, so why not they?" Thank goodness that there's SOMEONE who actually looks at evidence instead of just trying to disprove anything that doesn't fit the currently accepted dogma. Because yes, no need for SAILING(why not rowing? paddling?) to get there. Lots of species got across waters without any connecting lands. It as a completely worthless argument. "is it really that much of a stretch" Nope. It is in fact VERY plausible that pre-humans figured out how to get across waters with the help of something floating. And as you said, how did monkeys get to S.America? That's MUCH longer and on an ocean that have much more dangerous weather. When it comes to archeology, there is one horribly big issue with the official science. That they tend to treat anything that has not been PROVEN without any doubt to have happened, is completely impossible until proven otherwise. It's terribly annoying. Anyone who cannot look at something new with an unprejudiced mind has already failed as a scientist, because science is looking at all evidence and trying to figure out what it means, not making assumptions to fit the evidence into. Evidence does not stop being evidence just because we find it implausible to be possible. The migration of humans to Americas is an excellent example of this. Until recently every piece of evidence pointing towards migration there before a landbridge existed, was dismissed, often outright casually and arrogantly. And yet now, the last decade of findings have pretty much provided close to rocksolid evidence of migration happening before the landbridge could possibly have existed. And now the accepted narrative is changing towards likewise instead rejecting that the less solid evidence of even earlier migrations could possibly be true. And yet most of that evidence is now at the same level of validity that the previously discarded evidence was a few decades ago. And always always, the single biggest problem is the assumption of primitivism. Assumptions that has been disproven literally thousands upon thousands of times, and yet we STILL keep going with the bad logic of "less technology and ancient=inferior ability to think or invent". Also the fallacy of equating knowledge with intelligence. Ancient pre-humans would also have their geniuses, the lower populations means they would be fewer and further between, but there's no reason to assume that someone with the mental abilities of Da Vinci didn't exist a few million years ago. They would have had vastly inferior resources to build upon of course, but the most likely problems and questions they would have tried to solve would also generally be dramatically less complex and not require nearly as much nonlocal resources. All you need for a raft is the very primitive toolmaking of very early pre-humans, and basically seeing something float in water. And realising that something hollow floats better, is a very easy next step. So yes, rafts and primitive canoes is pretty much guaranteed to have existed for millions of years. And possibly one of the single most reinvented technologies in history.

@rridderbusch518 3 месяца назад

My daughter made an error (not a typo) on her Ph.D thesis in Human Genetics. It went unnoticed until it was published. A student spotted the error. It took her months to make everything make sense again. It happens.

@0topon 3 месяца назад

Fun fact: The "footprints" were first found by a researcher who stumbled across them during his vacation

@OsirusHandle 3 месяца назад

that does happen quite often with fossils and so on

@Trisador9 3 месяца назад

"... but!, but, huge but - brazilian sized butt *gestures* ..." -Evan Hadfield, talking about palaeoarchaeology, 2024.

@kacperwoch4368 3 месяца назад

For a second i thought it was a Stefan Milo video.

@Hollylivengood 3 месяца назад

@@kacperwoch4368 You know Stefan is watching this, wishing he'd come up with this line.

@Nmethyltransferase 3 месяца назад

Come for the obscure stories. Lurk for an education in biology, paleontology, and anthropology. Stay for the culture.

@QuantumLeclerc 3 месяца назад

I think even if you ignore the possibility of a group of hominids walking to Crete and experiencing speciation, the fact that we have innumerable examples of "random rafting events" onto small islands throughout the world and history is just too much of a giant thorn in the side of a "it's IMPOSSIBLE" debunk. I feel pretty much any biologist studying evolution should be aware of that.

@SomePotato 3 месяца назад

I was looking for this comment. Thanks.

@westenicho 3 месяца назад

the dominant theory of apes arriving to South America from Africa is via a land raft. that journey was further back in history, and much longer. so they'd be challenging their colleagues' theories by stating it was impossible.

@asicdathens 3 месяца назад

You don't need specialized sailing to reach Crete from mainland Greece. The island of Antikythera is 42 km away and Crete is clearly visible from an elevated point of the island. We are not discussing some star navigation

@TheGahta 3 месяца назад

So how you keep going in the right direction once your not on that high elevation? Kinda a weak reasoning

@TheGahta 3 месяца назад

@@yt.personal.identification yes a concept known in prehistory and we all know how easy keeping direction on open seas is... If you cant admit a bad take fine, but dont embarass yourself like this

@TheGahta 3 месяца назад

@@yt.personal.identification how far you can see at sea level? Whats making it not an open ocean? Its not about size but currents and the like... Just stop or start making points and not just excuses

@TheGahta 3 месяца назад

@@yt.personal.identification were not talking about what we can do with our knowledge now but if thats reasonable to imply on a ancient peoples Dont get more cringe please

@gerardtimings5625 3 месяца назад

@@TheGahta By keen observation of water currents and their colours,winds/sky conditions, types of birds and their flight patterns,and sounds. I'm descended from people who lived on the Shetlands, 60 miles north of Scotland, and they still use these techniques sometimes, even sailing at night without radar or GPS. Before those were invented they could navigate to Scotland, and elsewhere.

@sayakchakraborty4206 3 месяца назад

The possibilities which you've highlighted are actually ones which we as palaeoanthropologists and evolutionary anthropologists have also thought and discussed among our circles. Improbable, yes, but they can't be ignored. I am planning to write a paper on this in the future.

@LEFT4BASS 3 месяца назад

It’s good to keep an open mind. So many of the obvious truths we take for granted now would have once seemed like insane conspiracy theories.

@MadDoodles 3 месяца назад

@@LEFT4BASSHealthy skepticism is also good however, plenty of “common facts” have also turned out to be wrong. They are both sides of the same coin, so exercise both. :)

@dressagegirlkae 21 день назад

I worked on a dig in Croatia and we found beads and shells that Paleolithic people probably carried across the Aegean from near Venice. Not as old as we are talking about here, but a similar historic event.

@jmchristoph 3 месяца назад

Speaking in my capacity as a geologist, the biggest issue for me is that the Cenozoic history of the Aegean is among the more complex within both the modern Mediterranean and the broader Eurasian-Nubian continental boundary. The folks who study the tectonics of the Aegean Microplate regularly keep coming up with refinements to our understanding of the structure & sense of motion of all of its plate boundaries. Those kind of refinements often result in significant changes in how the stratigraphic record can be interpreted, both in the specific setting of Crete and elsewhere that we learn similar things about a plate boundary. Mind you, this is all completely independent of the repeated separation of the Mediterranean from the Atlantic, which is driven by global sea levels much more than plate tectonics. But even still, both the Aegean and the basin between Crete and Africa are relatively deep, so it's worth considering tectonic evolution alongside sealevel evolution, because both would play a role in determining Crete's hypothetical past connections to other land, and indeed both may have been necessary for Crete to have ever been contiguous with the mainland. If I was ever asked to peer review a paper like those you've cited in this video (which probably wouldn't happen because I'm not a paleobiologist or archaeologist), the first thing I'd ask for is a section addressing the geologic context of the field site. What's the local rock unit; what's its sedimentary fabric; what's its relationship with the stratigraphically adjacent & geographically proximal units; what structural features does it contain; *before* getting into specific fossil or radioisotope ages & their interpretation. By itself, that discussion doesn't have much direct relevance to the question of where hominids migrated in the cenozoic. But if an argument about animal migration relies on a set of claims about where land was at a certain time, then there must be a robust analysis of how much we understand how that land itself has evolved.

@gryphon0468 3 месяца назад

Good points.

@kiri101 3 месяца назад

While I believe we may find evidence of earlier and more complex tool use than we currently have I'm a big believer in accidental rafting. It's a bit more plausible with pregnant rats than something on the scale of an ape but the ingredients are simple: end up in the water, can't really swim, hold on to something floating for dear life and go where the currents take you.

@purebloodedgriffin 3 месяца назад

There's also the inbetween point, where a homonid uses a log or other piece of driftwood as a raft intentionally

@PDXDrumr 3 месяца назад

As a former biologist, we know something close to nothing, maybe 5%. The world is a fascinating place.

@peggysmith5202 3 месяца назад

U got that right!!

@Norralin 3 месяца назад

Former biologist? Aren't you still a biologist??

@FirstDagger 3 месяца назад

@@Norralin They could be retired.

@hope1575 3 месяца назад

@@Norralinthat was my question lol

@hope1575 3 месяца назад

@@FirstDagger I feel like if a biologist retires from work they are still a biologist 🤔. Leaving academia or industry doesn't undo your scientific training. "Former biologist" makes it sound like they've renounced the science altogether or something lol. Maybe if their work in that field was brief and they completely changed career paths afterwards it could make sense to me to say it that way, but that's just based on the connotations I have associated with those words and phrasing.

@JonnoPlays 3 месяца назад

Let's say a tsunami hits your village. You find yourself and surviving members of your family clinging to floating debris for dear life. The debris floats wherever the material takes them and with no other choice these people cling to it and go to that place and continue living there. This would likely be the first instance of a raft, discovered by accident and remembered and adapted by those who survived. It's just a possibility.

@jrhoadley 3 месяца назад

Even proto humans refused to ask for directions?

@malahammer 3 месяца назад

Only the male of the species 😀

@andrewhooper7603 3 месяца назад

@@malahammer The real proto humans were the friends we made along the way.

@OllamhDrab 3 месяца назад

One of the things about the 'improbable' is that given a really long time, a lot of improbable things happen.

@nunliski 3 месяца назад

There really isn't a "missing link" anymore. It was already found, and it was actually multiple discoveries. The big picture of human evolution is very well proven and understood. Of course, there are many small questions remaining, but none of those gaps in understanding are anywhere near the significance of the what the term "missing link" meant historically.

@rantingrodent416 3 месяца назад

I was under the impression that the "missing link" people really want to know about is the immediate ancestor of homo sapiens, which I believe we still don't have, and I suppose might not look different enough from us to even be distinguishable in the fossil record?

@Croz89 3 месяца назад

It's morphed from an argument against evolution to pretty much any gap in the evolutionary timeline.

@Dimitriterrorman 2 месяца назад

Missing link means the ape that went from quadrapedal to bipedal, we have species closely related to that and species after but we dont know exactly when we started walking upright. thats the missing link.

@nunliski 2 месяца назад

@@Dimitriterrorman It may be the case that there are lingering questions about the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal locomotion, but that is not at all the specific meaning of "missing link." The term has no specific meaning, and scientists no longer use it. It comes from an era when much less was known about human evolution AND evolution in general. It is irrelevant and outdated now. If you don't believe me, you can confirm what I'm saying with just a few seconds of research.

@viktorkukuruzovic5332 3 месяца назад

If you're looking for teeth, Turkey is pretty close, you can get them for a low price there

@sayakchakraborty4206 3 месяца назад

@StefanMilo you got an end credit!

@usergiodmsilva1983PT 23 дня назад

Milo! One of the greatest apes around.

@netx421 3 месяца назад

What if the ape taught some sea turtles to be his conveyance across the open oceans?

@dukeon 3 месяца назад

Or a scorpion tried to convince a frog… 🤔

@Nick-zp3ub 3 месяца назад

That ape must have been the great great grandfather of captain jack sparrow

@julietfischer5056 3 месяца назад

Unless the ancestors of those animals were also stranded when the Mediterranean flooded, the smaller animals could have floated on 'rafts' of storm-felled trees and other vegetation. Either the clumps were washed ashore, or came close enough for the animals to swim. The deer could also have swum, and elephants have been observed swimming (using their trunks for snorkels). Once they came ashore, enough of them stayed to produce the animals of Crete (those who left either died or never went near the ocean again).

@Riceslayerrr 3 месяца назад

Love the variety of all your videos, I learn so much from such obscure topics around the world. Keep up the good work!

@LilFeralGangrel 3 месяца назад

I've been watching this channel for a bit over half a decade now. Every video makes me think about something in an interesting perspective, and I'm thankful for that. Thank you for challenging my perceptions.

@sheilam4964 3 месяца назад

Thx for doing this, filming it and sharing it with us.

@terenceokane 3 месяца назад

Love he very subtle Stefan Milo shoutout at the end!

@meisteremm 3 месяца назад

I think that I can provide the answer to this, at least as far as the Elephants go: one Elephant wrapped its trunk around the tail of the Elephant in front of it, so on, so forth. The lead Elephant was just a really strong swimmer. Think of "Hands across America," except more like "Elephants swimming to Crete."

@glennmungra5476 3 месяца назад

It's a known fact that elephants have been spotted swimming from the african coast to the french islands. Maybe it was an elephant with a hominin fotoprint?

@glennmungra5476 3 месяца назад

It's a known fact that elephants have been spotten swimming from the african coast to the french islands. They just have to paddle with 4 legs, keep their trunk high enough to be able to breath and know which way to swim to.

@Iscannon 3 месяца назад

The mediterranean basin was where the Tanu had their civilisations during the pliocene when the humans time traveled to avoid the galactic milieu before Felice Landry broke the Gibraltar strait as revenge against Culluket. That was a very coherent sentence don't fight me.

@TonksMoriarty 3 месяца назад

The term "missing link" irks me so much as by any definition that makes sense, we have it. The extreme end of that definition is every single generation of human ancestor.

@user-nb4ex5zk3w 3 месяца назад

I found a stone with an apparent footprint on it. I took it to a well known archeologist in Johannesburg. He said "we often find these, caused by erosion".

@kalrandom7387 3 месяца назад

This is video I could read the comments on for days

@EyesOfByes 3 месяца назад

RU-vid's best storyteller. Period.

@onbearfeet 3 месяца назад

"My boy Chuckie Dee and his love of barnacles." 😂

@elizabethharttley4073 3 месяца назад

You truly stretch my mind and imagination, and i love it. You bring such a wide variety of topics to light. Idk what my life would be like if i didn't keep learning and thinking. Thank you 😊 Carry on

@kevinrishton1060 3 месяца назад

I really like the way this guy isn't bias one way or the other and how he really digs into and sometimes refutes or comes up with other left out possibilities! Definitely subscribing now❤

@jeetpradhan2906 3 месяца назад

Evan 'Just Saying' Hadfield

@freshofftheufo 3 месяца назад

"If there were teeth in Greece, there coulda been some feet in Crete." brilliant!

@user-if4br9rf7f 3 месяца назад

People underestimate the urge in a nomad to see over the next ridge, both literally and figuratively.

@ltlbuddha 3 месяца назад

I watch you and Stefan Milo. rarely do your subjects overlap, though

@BrambleWood 3 месяца назад

the past couple of decades have seen so many new finds and revelations nothing is impossible, who knows what will be found next or where, nice job.

@ValensBellator 3 месяца назад

The one thing I’ve always felt people underestimate due to an obvious lack of evidence (the odds of such materials surviving are almost zero) is how early basic rafts might have been invented. With all the floating logs every one of them would see it doesn’t seem far fetched to me that the concept of wrapping a few together and riding it would occur to some of them.

@schiz0phren1c 3 месяца назад

"That's where the hominid carried you" ...awesome.

@MephieStopheles 3 месяца назад

Hippos dont swim, they're too dense. They literally just walk along the bottom.

@Bit-while_going 3 месяца назад

I myself wouldn't put so much weight on whether an ape walked like a human especially seeing how homo naledi had so many less-than-human-seeming traits and yet was fairly modern, and even theoretically a hominin.

@420Khatz 3 месяца назад

Thanks, Rare Earth. I needed this food for thought.

@michelecox5241 3 месяца назад

Awesome as usual. ❤❤ you are totally correct. It IS possible. It has happened with others.

@herzogsbuick 21 день назад

this was really, really fun. thanks as always

@liamolaoghaire 3 месяца назад

Love the videos Evan, keep up the great work!

@MisterMakerNL 3 месяца назад

So it wasn't Moses?

@GuntherRommel 3 месяца назад

Frig you're good at this.

@user-un8tv1pp8m 25 дней назад

Also, Lemurs made it to Madagascar at some point in time across a comparable stretch of ocean. Given enough time, some driftwood clingers can survive quite a distance.

@schiz0phren1c 3 месяца назад

Sir Terry Pratchett would have said they floated there on a log...(if there was room with all the camels!)

@roseduste80 3 месяца назад

How do you know deer can't sail?

@myeyeswentdeaf6213 3 месяца назад

Ya know what!? 🤔….Just for you being THEE ONLY channel I’ve EVER seen be so honest so fast, with the first words of their video saying there’s probably nothing true at all about their title,… I’m giving you a Sub! 👍

@GayaGreen 3 месяца назад

Good of you to do the asking and having an opend maind... and my I also say... that you seems to have a very smart concept about your program...

@stevemonkey6666 3 месяца назад

The idea that modern humans may have evolved in Greece is probably way too politically fraught to even think about.....🤔

@PlatinumAltaria 3 месяца назад

It simply isn't correct; the earliest human fossils come from East Africa, even if a human relative went to Greece it CAME from Africa.

@fafafohigh69 3 месяца назад

@@PlatinumAltariabased on what has been discovered to date. Science is not cut and dry, it evolves as more clues are unearthed

@Poldovico 3 месяца назад

Three million years ago there were no such things as modern humans. We know our ancestors, and those ancestors' ancestors, were in Africa far later. If the wildly unlikely events suggested by those holes that might potentially be footprints were to be proven, it would just mean the ancestors of the ancestors of the ancestors of the... (you get it) happened to pass by Greece at some point. Which is about as meaningful "politically" as locating the puddle where the first bacteria figured out how to split in two.

@tysoe11111 3 месяца назад

I really like your videos my friend

@RareEarthSeries 3 месяца назад

Thank you

@cfish64 3 месяца назад

cool video man

@Timmycoo 3 месяца назад

There are other theories of how certain species made it to islands when we know they didn't originate there. (This is from PBS Eons) and the conjecture is that they fed and lived near the shore, of which they "rode" there on island breakaways, landing on larger islands ie. Madagascar being the most famous one. I don't see why we can't apply this logic to a this.

@danielrose881 3 месяца назад

Why the assumption that the only way any African animals could even get to Crete would be to cross the Med? They could easily have just walked around the Med, through the Levant, through Türkiye and into Greece. From there, the island chain from the mainland to Crete would be easy to traverse.

@RareEarthSeries 3 месяца назад

Crossing from Greece to Crete requires crossing the Med, nobody is suggesting they crossed from Libya directly

@danielrose881 3 месяца назад

@@RareEarthSeries The video appears to suggest that. What I'm saying is that the longest stretch of water between the islands from the mainland to Crete is less than 50kms... today. Notwithstanding sea level rises and falls, the chain of islands from Crete to the mainland also sits on the edge of the Aegean and African tectonic plates, with the Aegean plate moving southwards at a rate of 3.7cm per year. So it's perfectly plausible that the islands were still connected in the era of time we're talking about.

@alicefreist318 3 месяца назад

hominids. other words: all hominins are also hominids. Not all hominids are hominins.

@StoneCBears 3 месяца назад

If the hypothesis is correct and turn into theory, we should named the first Crete hominid fossil Wilson from Tom Hank's movie Cast Away.

@modivin 3 месяца назад

Graecopithecus is still walking among people in Crete, as I'm sure you have already realized. They are easy to identify by their clothing and pickup trucks.

@john_michael_white 3 месяца назад

I hope if I take a ferry to Crete it's very much floating.

@jonathancardy9941 3 месяца назад

forget the 100 km between the mainland and Crete, whether they swam, rafted or clung to a tree, they probably island hopped, and no one hop needed be anywhere near 100 km.

@adamshinbrot 3 месяца назад

I know this is a stupid question and I am an ignorant fool, but schoolteachers in prison? Also, kudos for "teeth in Greece, feet in Crete". I do so love poetry.

@dsnodgrass4843 3 месяца назад

The person who stole 8 of the "footprints" was a schoolteacher.

@adamshinbrot 3 месяца назад

@@dsnodgrass4843 Thank you

@brianwelch1579 3 месяца назад

Hey, are you even ALLOWED to answer the question in the title? I though that wasn't permitted on YT, I've never seen that done before. Thumbs up!

@TheRotnflesh 3 месяца назад

@7:20 The absolute casual dismissal of 'sailing' for a pre-historical creature is a little unscientific. That attitude made an entire generation create books about civilization starting 6,000 years ago, and then we find Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Bonkuclu Tarla, Jericho, and many other locations predating Sumer by thousands of years and many in such proximity as to be considered contenders as civilizations. Not dissing the work here; it's beautiful! I just feel that the intellectual capacity of pre-historical beings should never be disregarded. We have found many things past the million-year mark that we only 'conceive' of their full form, and have to rely on that as truth. I am far more open-minded; this world is VERY old.

@stevejohnson3357 3 месяца назад

This is a great reminder that bad habits of thought happen on both sides. Anti-science people are always inclined to believe that a new find is far older than most think it could be while the more educated of us tend to think that anything strange and unexplainable must be an error. Not quite that cut and dried but in general, those seem to be the battle lines.

@austinrobertson1134 2 месяца назад

People dont grasp if you fell into the water and couldnt swim and weren't immediately drowned you clung for life and as that turtle from nemo says you kinda just "go with the flow" and hope dehydration dosent kill you

@bforman1300 3 месяца назад

Well reasoned.

@OsirusHandle 3 месяца назад

in 2017 Sarah Thomas swam 164 km of ocean in one go. ofc she had a team feeding her energy smoothies but still. *swam*.

@EmergentStardust 2 месяца назад

It has been hypothesized but definitely not confirmed that Neanderthals ever crossed the Strait of Gibraltar.

@jacklovejoy5290 3 месяца назад

10:40 Hippos can't swim, they bounce along the bottom of rivers

@sonikku956 3 месяца назад

The idea of a species of distant hominin evolving bipedalism separately from our ancestors is intriguing!

@puellanivis 3 месяца назад

While you have a correction comment that not all great apes are hominins, chimps and bonobos are hominins. The smallest tree that includes humans, but excludes apes and chimps are homininans.

@williamchamberlain2263 3 месяца назад

How do you stop spelling hominininininians?

@dikoo6506 3 месяца назад

Never misses

@carnsoaks1 3 месяца назад

There's a great Science Fiction novel, it's called EVOLUTION, by Stephen Baxter. Worth the weekend long read. All about Mammals fight to the middle of the evolutionary hierarchy.

@jhnmur 3 месяца назад

Good luck trying to find the missing link.

@retrovideoquest 3 месяца назад

Evan, I've been following your channel for years and I think I've watched every single one of your videos. So I'm frankly surprised and disappointed by your supposedly funny "Brazilian-sized butt" comment. Cheap. I've lived many years in both Brazil an Canada and I can categorically say that I've seen Canadian butts much, much larger than anything I've seen in Brazil... No only that, but this video had all the potential of being a commentary about how individual biases and particular agendas play a role in amplifying bad science and outright lies, but at the end it was just about the triumph of bothsideism. You are better than that, and I look forward to watching more of the well-thought insight that characterizes your earlier videos. This one was definitely uninspired.

@gordonf.woodbine7588 3 месяца назад

An interesting approach by a keen amateur, which most people are unwilling to consider. Professional people have been taught to avoid speculative assessments. After all one’s career and reputation stand to suffer.

@danielschein6845 3 месяца назад

There are a lot of things out there that are possible but very unlikely. Let’s take your example of a hominid/hominin ancestor making it to Crete in a log or raft. It seems possible that one poor unlucky individual might have survived some really awful accident and ended up there marooned there by himself. However, for there to be a lasting, stable population over millions of years that didn’t inbreed into oblivion you would need at least 100 individuals. That sort of thing strongly implies they deliberately emigrated. It’s not impossible. The Polynesians over the centuries found and settled every habitable scrap of land in the Pacific. It’s just very hard - particularly for an ancestor who we have no evidence was anywhere near the level of sophistication that it takes to navigate and sail. Such people also wouldn’t have been satisfied to just stay in Crete. They’d be all over the Mediterranean.

@RareEarthSeries 3 месяца назад

Yes, but to continue the what if - if they died off 2.7 million years ago they could have theoretically been everywhere in the Mediterranean and we just haven't found them yet. After all, we only just found these footprints, and before that there was nothing on Crete. Until extremely recently we didn't think Homo Erectus had done it either, and then were proven wrong by what I believe was over a hundred thousand years when they found evidence in a Crete cave. You need 50+ individuals for a population to remove inbreeding, yes. But it isn't a requirement for a population to start. It just makes them less susceptible to major problems.

@AzraelThanatos 3 месяца назад

@@RareEarthSeriesI'm trying to remember the timing, but you also have the Green Sahara cycle that might have been about the same era so it's possible that various proto-human species spread out more with various contractions and expansions as you go. Different traits for different areas that combined in a larger genetic puzzle over millions of years...

@kwisin1337 3 месяца назад

Love the story. Thanks from NS..

@wadelintick9538 3 месяца назад

Love me some Milo, cheers

@MrShanester117 3 месяца назад

Silly guy. Everyone knows a homonym is when two words have the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings

@nathanmadox3364 16 дней назад

You really do make the best content on this platform, but man I can not go one vid without shitting on the leafs after seeing that hat

@RareEarthSeries 15 дней назад

You're not only welcome but encouraged to shit on the Leafs

@sesa2984 3 месяца назад

I have casually watched your videos for years based on recommendation by the machine, but I just subscribed. Please point me to the video of yours that you think will most blow my mind. Thank you.

@patrick247two 3 месяца назад

As Cody would say, "Beware of the BOAR, boar can swim."

@garybhagan2528 3 месяца назад

Very likely that upright walking hominid would not evolve in only one place

@sensorymats8544 3 месяца назад

thank you. very interesting

@Nyerguds 3 месяца назад

Huh, this episode was certainly different. You don't usually get so hypothetical. Still, interesting stuff.

@phillyrocks3847 3 месяца назад

To view jpaleo artwork, you must view it from every angle and every light source.

@spitfirered 3 месяца назад

Millions Of Years Ago We Don't Really Know What God Put On This Earth Being The Age Of The Earth Now Is Only 6,000 Years Old, Thank You Rare Earth For Another Expedition Of This Earth!

@nonsequitor 3 месяца назад

Commiserations for anyone expecting a Rare Earth video to be a straight answer 😉🙌

@Poldovico 3 месяца назад

And a smaller subset of those expecting it to be a straight answer about... race, of all things.

@grbradsk 3 месяца назад

Since 99.999% of all wood from even a couple 100Ks of years ago is gone, I'm going to guess that one of our smarter Hominins would have found at least tidal marshes irresistible to get something floating out there to harvest food, and then they would have contrived movable rafts, and some of these could have been swept out to sea. Or, an ice age could have made the sea very shallow making it easier to float over.

@MattiasKesti 3 месяца назад

Question mark in video title? Betteridge’s law applies and the answer is “no”.

@norlockv 3 месяца назад

He’s just saying it’s possible.

@nosondre 3 месяца назад

They, like so many societies, clearly need to pay their schoolteachers more.

@saturnguytwelvesg127 3 месяца назад

I am strongly suspicious of anyone speaking of the past (especially before writing) who says, "we know...."

@Venator1230 3 месяца назад

Animals ARE smarter than we give them credit for, and we would be foolish to under-estimate the potential intelligence of proto-humans. It had to take many levels of instincts and intelligences for us to get where we are today.

@lesleygorski5447 2 месяца назад

However you forgot to add in the splitting of the continence which is believed to have happened due to the shape of each one. Time period I’m not sure but is spoken of in the bible

@bozhidarmihaylov 3 месяца назад

Beautifully, as always!

@Cyssane 3 месяца назад

I was going to give this fascinating video a 10/10, but then I read "A Lite Hop" in the credits. Now much like the researchers, that one detail forces me to re-evaluate everything. (Well played, now take your angry upvote and get out, lol)